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by ghusto 3y ago
That, is an excellent point. However, the very reason I buy in them in the first place is that they proved themselves to me _at the time_. Believe it or not, what I'm saying is I never had a bad experience with cars from the 90s, in th
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by ghusto 3y ago
> First of all: survivorship bias So let's take all the things that I had in the 90s that I had to replace because they broke: - ... You can say I'm only remembering the positives, honestly, I can not think of a single thing I
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by ghusto 3y ago
Miele vacuum cleaners are great. Our Dysons and other newfangled bagless crap came and went, but the Miele is still here, and still rocking.
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by ghusto 3y ago
For the folks who are doubting his point: Is there anything you've bought new ten years ago that you still have (and works!).
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past. I continue to buy older cars because this has been false for me everywhere I've experienced new cars (borrowed, friends, my own). Pointi
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by ghusto 3y ago
Maybe a choice from a small number of reasons after clicking the downvote could be good? Something like "inaccurate, antagonistic, rule violation".
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by ghusto 3y ago
Not so! There's a lot of snobbery with things like chocolate because adults want to distinguish themselves whilst eating what's considered a "childish" sweet, and chocolate makers aren't exactly going to correct the
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by ghusto 3y ago
You're not wrong there. On further reflection I see it's not tech per se, but maybe more broadly; jobs people didn't choose, but ended up in. If you weren't interested enough to choose your job, then obviously you won&#x
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by ghusto 3y ago
I had the interesting experience of working with a non-tech team for a short period a while ago. I could not believe the pace and lax attitude to work these people had. When work _was_ done, it was done in the most unoptimised, short-term-t
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by ghusto 3y ago
It's because it's not technically chocolate. Or at least this was the basis for the "chocolate war" of Europe: https://europe.wisc.edu/outreach-opportunities/european-unio...
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by ghusto 3y ago
Aha! Vindication for my belief that chocolate from the U.S.A. literally tastes rancid! Now I know why it tastes like off milk, but not why you guys like it :/
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by ghusto 3y ago
> But what Elon wants, Tesla customers get Had to laugh at that bit, and then sigh :( On the one hand, it's great that he takes nothing for granted, and does his own thing. On the other hand, it's sad (for everyone) that he can
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by ghusto 3y ago
No, but empathy is something autistic people famously struggle with
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by ghusto 3y ago
You’re not wrong, but it’s worth emphasising “fortune 500”, because it’s their own fault it costs them that much. Would be a negligible fraction of that for normal companies.
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by ghusto 3y ago
That sounds _exactly_ like an autistic person lashing out.
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by ghusto 3y ago
> TL:DR; Apps can access the nearby Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and MAC addresses through an API that is intended to help with connecting to hotspots. Then they can use this info to look-up in databases that collect SSIDs based on their locations
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by ghusto 3y ago
I think you're mostly right, but a smaller part of it is the real value older technology has for some people. The recent(-ish) resurgence in music cassettes is of course partially the usual hipster douchery, but it's also to do wi
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Seriously considering just getting a record player so I can get rid of these middle men though. It's too much. Do it! I started buying CDs again, and it's great. I get the best quality sound — we can argue about that another
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by ghusto 3y ago
I pay for content too, just never to companies that drove all competition out of business with their bottomless war-chest, and only then started adding ads and asking for money. Fuck. Google.
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by ghusto 3y ago
So glad someone said it. All these "just pay for YouTube Premium" comments make me sad. Killing all competition with effectively endless funding for your own thing, then charging for the only game in town should be illegal.
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by ghusto 3y ago
You say Luddite like it's a bad thing. > Guess who works at a coffee shop Her? Happy and fulfilled as a human being no doubt.
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by ghusto 3y ago
I dislike the unquestioned assumption that "Luddite bad, machine good". If you love progress for progress' sake, think about where you're progressing _to_. So far we've "progressed": - My furniture no long
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by ghusto 3y ago
Never bought a car for more than 2k, and never had any problems. They’re indeed usually over 100k miles, but definitely not in rough shape. In fact, my first car was under a grand, and it was built like a tank. I was not kind to that thing,
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by ghusto 3y ago
I agree that many of the drives out in the countryside should be bike rides, but not all. I’ve seen people driving their car to the supermarket <1km away for a handful of shopping, which is obviously bonkers. Then again, you sometimes ne
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by ghusto 3y ago
When we can buy second hand electric cars _with reliable batteries that aren’t near end of life_ for 2k, we can have a discussion. Arguments of affordability before that point will rely on cherry picking, and I call bullshit on every one of
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by ghusto 3y ago
I feel your pain. Right-click, save as, and ... awww-goddamn it, another WebP >:|
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by ghusto 3y ago
Oh, so it makes sense to you too?! Am I in the minority for finding it hilarious that "usually" was used to describe 100% of 2?
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by ghusto 3y ago
I meant more that he said "usually", but was referring to exactly _two_ instances. Unless I misunderstood something? It made me laugh :)
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by ghusto 3y ago
> ... (usually pregnant on one try). Both kids are healthy This word, "usually" ...
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by ghusto 3y ago
Sounds like an easy place to get great data for their hypothesis. Compare places like Saudi Arabia with England. Sure it's messy because of the other factors to consider (since it's not an experiment), but if there are zero cases

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